Any sin alienates God from man. Rather, a man by sin alienates himself from God. Often people resent the Almighty for examples of successful individuals who sin a lot and do not experience any problems in life. Is this fair? Most likely, this means that God has stopped trying to correct a person and allows him to live in peace without his intervention according to worldly laws. So it’s not worth envy. And to judge in general is dangerous. Perhaps you do not know the good deeds and properties of a hypothetical “sinner”. But in general, what distinguish mortal sins in Orthodoxy?
First, a little about this category as a whole. They are considered special because they are most destructive to the soul and give dark forces access to man. It sometimes results in serious mental and physical illnesses. And after death you will not envy such a person. And in life people turn away from him, because mortal sins are ugly. The relaxed, oily gaze of a lecher, the agitation at the sight of a gluttony’s meal, the nagging of a person indulging in despair, the unhealthy gleam in his eyes when talking about money, the loss of mind with anger are just a few examples.
And what exactly are mortal sins? Orthodoxy compiled a list based on the theory of eight basic passions. The beginning of many moral violations is gluttony. It includes not only overeating. This is also the desire to eat is certainly delicious, and tasteless food at the same time spoils, even if a person is really hungry. All alcoholics and drug addicts are considered gluttony. Excessive attention to body care also applies to this sin. That is, those who spend half a day in SPA also sin with this particular type. Deadly sins in Orthodoxy include fornication, that is, the wrong manifestations of human sexuality. In general, they are considered correct only in marriage and without extremes and perversions. Everything else, including erotic fantasies, is fornication.
Deadly sins in Orthodoxy include love of money. This includes not only greed with extravagance. It is also a dream of wealth, thoughts about ways of enrichment, cruelty to the poor and asking for alms. Anger can lead a person to jail. Sadness and despondency are different sins. The first is a loss of hope, impatience in receiving a reward, blaming others for what he is to blame. Despondency is idleness, a long sleep, spending a lot of time in entertainment, which gradually inevitably leads to despair.
There is also vanity with pride. In Orthodoxy, these mortal sins are considered especially dangerous, since the second, the most terrible of all, is born from the first. Vanity is manifested not only as a search for fame. It also refers to special attention to its beauty, work on the timbre of the voice, love of beautiful things. Pride is not only ignoring the needs of one's neighbor as selfishness. It is also too lazy to think, and fixation on the earth, and insolence, and self-will, and colossal conceit.
Sometimes they talk about 10 deadly sins. In Orthodoxy there are only eight of them. These are the Ten Commandments, but they are structured a little differently, and there is no direct correspondence “mortal sin is the commandment”.